Care of the feeble-minded / Walter E. Fernald.

  • Fernald, Walter E., 1859-1924.
Date:
[1904?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Care of the feeble-minded / Walter E. Fernald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    transfer from the state hospital, state farm, or any of the state insane hospitals, to the Massachusetts school for the feeble-minded any inmate whose condition would be benefited by such transfer, upon the certificate of a physician that he is a proper subject for said institu¬ tion. Section 127. An annual appropriation shall be made for the support of . . . the Massachusetts school for the feeble-minded. The amount of the appropriation shall be determined by estimating, at the rate of board fixed by law, the cost of the average daily num¬ ber of state patients for the preceding year, increased by a number equal to the average annual increase in the number of such patients for the preceding five years. [Resolves of 1900, Chapter 36.] Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the trustees of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded in erecting new buildings for the said school upon land of the Commonwealth at Templeton, and in pro¬ viding a water supply and sewerage works for the same. [Approved March 28,1900. [Acts of 1902, Chapter 434, Section 2.] From said loan expenditures may be made as follows : — • •»*•••*•••• By the trustees of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded, a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, for the following purposes : For two dormitories of sufficient capacity to accommodate one hundred and eighty inmates, and for furnishing the same, for additions to the present electric lighting and heating plants, and for an addition to the administration building, so-called, a sum not exceeding ninety-five thousand dollars ; and for the purchase of additional land for the use of said institution, such purchase to be subject to the approval of the governor and council, a sum not ex¬ ceeding thirty-five thousand dollars. [Acts of 1903, Chapter 414, Section 2.] From the loan aforesaid expenditures may be made as follows : — ..•••••••••• By the trustees of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, for the following pur¬ poses : For a group of farm buildings at the colony at Templeton of